Big 3 (or thereabouts) College Results - Class of 2021

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Anonymous wrote:I understand that Potomac’s class of 2021 is doing extremely well in terms of acceptances.

Yes that’s what my DC (Potomac ‘22) is telling me. I hope it’s true.

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Anonymous wrote:I understand that Potomac’s class of 2021 is doing extremely well in terms of acceptances.

Yes that’s what my DC (Potomac ‘22) is telling me. I hope it’s true.

What’s your DC telling you?

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that at least one student from GDS got into MIT EA. Can anyone else verify?

Curious about this too!

That is very impressive if true. But what about Harvard?

No acceptances to Harvard from GDS yet. Maybe in the spring

That’s not true. There is one I know of.

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Anonymous wrote:I understand that Potomac’s class of 2021 is doing extremely well in terms of acceptances.

Yes that’s what my DC (Potomac ‘22) is telling me. I hope it’s true.

What’s your DC telling you?

That Potomac ‘21s are doing well acceptance-wise.

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Anonymous wrote:I understand that Potomac’s class of 2021 is doing extremely well in terms of acceptances.

Yes that’s what my DC (Potomac ‘22) is telling me. I hope it’s true.

What’s your DC telling you?

That Potomac ‘21s are doing well acceptance-wise.

Doesn’t Potomac always have great college acceptances? I saw the photos of the class of 2020 in their college shirts on the Potomac website and was impressed.

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Anonymous wrote:With the common application you get up to 20 applications submitted. So there are no multiple essays.

Disagree. This is so ill-informed. Many schools have supplemental essays, in addition to the one standard essay on the common app.

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My kid got into HARVARD, PRINCETON and HOPKINS today.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone I’ve heard from is basically not getting in where they thought they would due in part to a lot more applicants than expected.

I think it has more to do with test optional. Let’s all those grade inflators (public schools) benefit and those grade deflators (big 3) get hurt. I predict worst college placement for the Cathedral schools as their insistence on not inflating grades like everyone else will hurt their students in a way that they will reconsider their anemic approach to giving an A.

Honestly, at some point, if what you are saying is true about Big 3 kids being disadvantaged is true, it will ruin the business model of these schools, and they will be forced to change. No one is going to pay 45K+ for the chance to lose out to public school kids of grading differences. The education is often really good but not that good.

The education is great. Full stop. But not playing the grade inflation game, when everyone is playing it, hurts college admissions chances. Full stop.

This whining has got to stop. The colleges and universities are all familiar with Washington’s tops schools and understand the grading disparities. This is simply a non issue that folks hold onto to get over the insecurities of their children not receiving offers from the top schools.

I think this is correct. The grading differences are NOT new. I went to a top boarding school in the 90s. Each year, only about 7% kids graduated with an average above 90. People were complaining about the same grading issues too at that time.

I don't know what the answer is here or if anything needs to change ( weighted GPA for AP/ Honors, for example) but ZERO chance Cathedral schools EVER inflate grades. That will NEVER happen.

What is interesting though is the above STAT .

I have seen that born out in Naviance. Very few kids with an average above a 90 and about 1 student in the class/ 90 kids with an average above a 96

Yet, 1/3 of the same graduating class achieve NMSF or Commended, which I think means a 1450 or higher ?

Pretty reflective of the high academic standards and rigor at a school where you can be in top 1-3% of SAT test results out of 2.5 Million Nationally and still only get a B + at NCS/STA because that is just what the teachers are used to in terms of quality of writing, level of work.

Actually, I believe your numbers are a little off. I know a lot of boys at STA who have A- averages and they are not the super motivated genius types. They are the sporty partying type, so there are plenty of A students at STA. It is a myth that getting As at STA is only for the top boys.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got into HARVARD, PRINCETON and HOPKINS today.

If only one could apply to all three of those schools ED/SEA and have been able to hear today instead of a few weeks ago like everyone else.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone I’ve heard from is basically not getting in where they thought they would due in part to a lot more applicants than expected.

I think it has more to do with test optional. Let’s all those grade inflators (public schools) benefit and those grade deflators (big 3) get hurt. I predict worst college placement for the Cathedral schools as their insistence on not inflating grades like everyone else will hurt their students in a way that they will reconsider their anemic approach to giving an A.

Honestly, at some point, if what you are saying is true about Big 3 kids being disadvantaged is true, it will ruin the business model of these schools, and they will be forced to change. No one is going to pay 45K+ for the chance to lose out to public school kids of grading differences. The education is often really good but not that good.

The education is great. Full stop. But not playing the grade inflation game, when everyone is playing it, hurts college admissions chances. Full stop.

This whining has got to stop. The colleges and universities are all familiar with Washington’s tops schools and understand the grading disparities. This is simply a non issue that folks hold onto to get over the insecurities of their children not receiving offers from the top schools.

I think this is correct. The grading differences are NOT new. I went to a top boarding school in the 90s. Each year, only about 7% kids graduated with an average above 90. People were complaining about the same grading issues too at that time.

I don't know what the answer is here or if anything needs to change ( weighted GPA for AP/ Honors, for example) but ZERO chance Cathedral schools EVER inflate grades. That will NEVER happen.

What is interesting though is the above STAT .

I have seen that born out in Naviance. Very few kids with an average above a 90 and about 1 student in the class/ 90 kids with an average above a 96

Yet, 1/3 of the same graduating class achieve NMSF or Commended, which I think means a 1450 or higher ?

Pretty reflective of the high academic standards and rigor at a school where you can be in top 1-3% of SAT test results out of 2.5 Million Nationally and still only get a B + at NCS/STA because that is just what the teachers are used to in terms of quality of writing, level of work.

Actually, I believe your numbers are a little off. I know a lot of boys at STA who have A- averages and they are not the super motivated genius types. They are the sporty partying type, so there are plenty of A students at STA. It is a myth that getting As at STA is only for the top boys.

Also Commended is ~1380.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone I’ve heard from is basically not getting in where they thought they would due in part to a lot more applicants than expected.

I think it has more to do with test optional. Let’s all those grade inflators (public schools) benefit and those grade deflators (big 3) get hurt. I predict worst college placement for the Cathedral schools as their insistence on not inflating grades like everyone else will hurt their students in a way that they will reconsider their anemic approach to giving an A.

Honestly, at some point, if what you are saying is true about Big 3 kids being disadvantaged is true, it will ruin the business model of these schools, and they will be forced to change. No one is going to pay 45K+ for the chance to lose out to public school kids of grading differences. The education is often really good but not that good.

The education is great. Full stop. But not playing the grade inflation game, when everyone is playing it, hurts college admissions chances. Full stop.

This whining has got to stop. The colleges and universities are all familiar with Washington’s tops schools and understand the grading disparities. This is simply a non issue that folks hold onto to get over the insecurities of their children not receiving offers from the top schools.

I think this is correct. The grading differences are NOT new. I went to a top boarding school in the 90s. Each year, only about 7% kids graduated with an average above 90. People were complaining about the same grading issues too at that time.

I don't know what the answer is here or if anything needs to change ( weighted GPA for AP/ Honors, for example) but ZERO chance Cathedral schools EVER inflate grades. That will NEVER happen.

What is interesting though is the above STAT .

I have seen that born out in Naviance. Very few kids with an average above a 90 and about 1 student in the class/ 90 kids with an average above a 96

Yet, 1/3 of the same graduating class achieve NMSF or Commended, which I think means a 1450 or higher ?

Pretty reflective of the high academic standards and rigor at a school where you can be in top 1-3% of SAT test results out of 2.5 Million Nationally and still only get a B + at NCS/STA because that is just what the teachers are used to in terms of quality of writing, level of work.

Actually, I believe your numbers are a little off. I know a lot of boys at STA who have A- averages and they are not the super motivated genius types. They are the sporty partying type, so there are plenty of A students at STA. It is a myth that getting As at STA is only for the top boys.

Seems kind of creepy that you’d know the grades for a lot of kids at STA who are presumably not your kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone I’ve heard from is basically not getting in where they thought they would due in part to a lot more applicants than expected.

I think it has more to do with test optional. Let’s all those grade inflators (public schools) benefit and those grade deflators (big 3) get hurt. I predict worst college placement for the Cathedral schools as their insistence on not inflating grades like everyone else will hurt their students in a way that they will reconsider their anemic approach to giving an A.

Honestly, at some point, if what you are saying is true about Big 3 kids being disadvantaged is true, it will ruin the business model of these schools, and they will be forced to change. No one is going to pay 45K+ for the chance to lose out to public school kids of grading differences. The education is often really good but not that good.

The education is great. Full stop. But not playing the grade inflation game, when everyone is playing it, hurts college admissions chances. Full stop.

This whining has got to stop. The colleges and universities are all familiar with Washington’s tops schools and understand the grading disparities. This is simply a non issue that folks hold onto to get over the insecurities of their children not receiving offers from the top schools.

I think this is correct. The grading differences are NOT new. I went to a top boarding school in the 90s. Each year, only about 7% kids graduated with an average above 90. People were complaining about the same grading issues too at that time.

I don't know what the answer is here or if anything needs to change ( weighted GPA for AP/ Honors, for example) but ZERO chance Cathedral schools EVER inflate grades. That will NEVER happen.

What is interesting though is the above STAT .

I have seen that born out in Naviance. Very few kids with an average above a 90 and about 1 student in the class/ 90 kids with an average above a 96

Yet, 1/3 of the same graduating class achieve NMSF or Commended, which I think means a 1450 or higher ?

Pretty reflective of the high academic standards and rigor at a school where you can be in top 1-3% of SAT test results out of 2.5 Million Nationally and still only get a B + at NCS/STA because that is just what the teachers are used to in terms of quality of writing, level of work.

Actually, I believe your numbers are a little off. I know a lot of boys at STA who have A- averages and they are not the super motivated genius types. They are the sporty partying type, so there are plenty of A students at STA. It is a myth that getting As at STA is only for the top boys.

Seems kind of creepy that you’d know the grades for a lot of kids at STA who are presumably not your kid.

PP didn’t say they are a parent.

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So STA teachers or administrators with access to student records are posting trends that they see in confidential class records on DCUM?

Very professional.

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Anonymous wrote:So STA teachers or administrators with access to student records are posting trends that they see in confidential class records on DCUM?

Very professional.

PP didn’t say they work at STA.

You seem a bit defensive. Why is that?